Thursday, March 23, 2017

House Intel Chair Says Obama Surveilled Trump

Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said on March 22 that the Obama administration had indeed surveilled Donald Trump. Nunes’s claim follows weeks of the Ruling Class demanding that Trump apologize for saying that Obama surveilled him.

Rep. Nunes (R-CA, 22nd) released an official statement on the matter in his role as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The first four bullet points of Nunes’s statement reveal massive allegations of potential wrongdoing by the Obama administration.

I recently confirmed that, on numerous occasions, the Intelligence Community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition.

Details about U.S. persons associated with the incoming administration—details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value—were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.

I have confirmed that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmasked.

To be clear, none of this surveillance was related to Russia or any investigation of Russian activities or of the Trump team.